In: Advanced Math
1) Show that if A is an open set in R and k ∈ R \ {0}, then the set kA = {ka | a ∈ A} is open.
1. Given is an open set and
To show that open we need to show that every point of is an interior point of .
Let be an arbitrary point .
As is open and so there exist such that
Now we will show that
let
then as .
So
If we choose the .
So for each there exist such that that is is an interior point of . As is arbitrary so each point of is an interior point of .
Hence is open .
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